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[–] Soup@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Humans with guns and preferably a helicopter.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Good luck spotting and hitting boar from a helicopter without like extensive thermal vision and and some massive minigun and even then it's gonna be hard.

Sneaky fuckers running in the undergrowth.

Remember they got Bobby as well

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Just type “helicopter hog hunting” into any search engine lol

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Haha fool me once Mr internet entrée. I will crank my hog in peace without hunting for whirling helicoptery hogs.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I did actually.

"Helibacon" made me chuckle lol.

But....

And

Doesn't really assuade me from my point too much... Especially when those are in Texas, where the annoying undergrowth, that hogs have an easy time hiding in, doesn't exist to the extent it does in other places.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pfff what about shit torpedoes from a submarine

[–] Chakravanti@monero.town 1 points 2 months ago

Hogs to the bogs.